Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent)

On the question of the Seanad, it is entirely pointless for Members to be talking in the conditional tense, what could or should have been. We should be talking in the present and future tenses. When I was appointed to the Seanad I said initially that we could be an epilogue or a prologue. It is not up to anybody else to tell us whether we are going to be an epilogue or a prologue. It is entirely up to ourselves to decide that.